Scholars and practitioners alike have framed the cultural and political transformations in Eastern Europe in terms of a ‘transition paradigm,’ as a passage from totalitarianism toward a horizon marked by the practices of modern liberal democracy. The Cambridge MAW team seeks to advance the state of the art by developing a ‘memory paradigm’ that casts […]

Does the medium make the memory? Within the cross-disciplinary field of cultural memory studies this programme focuses on the role played by different media (texts, images, monuments etc) in the evolution and maintenance of ‘memory sites.’ Through a series of interlinked case-studies it examines the interaction of different mnemonic practices over time, the influence of […]

Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria brings together researchers and teachers interested in tackling memory studies from an academic perspective, putting an emphasis on Cono Sur and Latin American countries. They organize regular meetings in the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES) in Buenos Aires, where they discuss and debate about projects, research documents and […]

The digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship is an initiative of UCSD in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, such as the ARMH (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), the Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos, the Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria and others. With the […]

The London Transitional Justice Network (LTJN) is a new inter-university and interdisciplinary network of scholars, practitioners and policymakers from the wider London area (and beyond) who have research interests in the politics, policies and processes of transitional justice. The LTJN is jointly convened by the LSE Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, the Centre on […]